Tag Archive: On the Chocolate Trail
Chocolate From Back Then
July 5, 2013
For the love of chocolate, myriads of studies and research were done just to trace back its history. While it’s nice to just enjoy your chocolate, it wouldn’t hurt to know how it made people from back then just as happy as we are now because of it.
Credits must be given to Fathers, specifically Dominicans, for having the Spanish appreciate chocolate. In 1544, they lured the court by preparing chocolate which was presented by a Kekchi Maya delegation of New World natives.
Because of faith, chocolate spread, making new regions of the world appreciate it. Europeans started to love it, so they used chocolate in Christian celebrations. They used chocolate to sustain different aspects of their lives, including physical, economic, as well as spiritual.
The Jewish Link to Chocolate
April 19, 2013
Jews are famous wanderers. As a result, the Jewish people have played a huge role in global trade. There’s a facet to the story though that is quite uncommon. That would be the correlation of the Jewish and chocolate during the era of the Spanish Inquisition.
Spanish explorers were the ones who brought back chocolate to Spain, whereas Jews brought it to world cities such as New York and Amsterdam. The rest is history as well as the subject of Rabbi Deborah Prinz’s book, “On the Chocolate Trail.”